Benefits

Maximise your return on investments

Using our tailored Outage Solutions that bring together a wide range of technical expertise we reduce complexity, identify optimized scope solutions, and deliver within the tightest of timescales.

Improve financial return

With careful planning and risk management, we can avoid lost revenue by reducing the risk of future plant failure, maximising component life, and restoring and improving plant performance.

Improve future maintenance strategies

Gain in-depth insights into the condition of your assets and where your focus needs to be for upcoming maintenance and repairs.

Outage Execution

Inspect and maintain

Checking the condition of assets and identifying any components that need to be monitored, repaired, or replaced.

Manage your assets

We make the most of your current resources to extract as much generating life as possible.

Replenish your stock

Provide any gaps you don’t have in stock from our impressive inventory.

Provide quality assurance

Make sure the new components and their installation are of the highest quality.

Outage Evaluation

We evaluate the success of the outage by asking these questions:

• Was it low risk?
• Was there any deviation from licensing conditions?
• Was there a minimum impact on personnel and the environment?
• Were there any significant unscheduled events?
• Was the scope of work well optimised?
• Was the schedule adhered to?
• Was there good quality of work?
• Was there efficient use of human, financial, and material resources?

Learning From Your Outage

Learning from your outage, and the many others we perform, ensures a continuous refinement of our outage process. Progressively reducing costs and maintaining the smooth, efficient, and safe operation of your plant - without any unexpected surprises in the next production cycle.

We build relationships for the long term. We understand that our products and services need to take into account your needs - not just of the moment, but for the life span of each and every project. As such we focus on customers’ requirements with a special emphasis on the future.

A timely response to industry needs.

The pressures on plant operators have never been greater. Changing demographics in the workplace are leading to a loss of expertise amongst plant personnel. Increasing regulations covering issues from safety to emission control, while valuable, add to the difficulties of everyday management.

Howden has a long association with the power industry. In talking to utility company managers and others in the sector, we became aware of a real, and growing demand, for a service company that could, safely, reliably and cost-effectively, move on site and carry out wide-ranging maintenance operations to OEM standards within strict schedules and budgets. If this could be done with the minimum possible disruption to the everyday working of the power station, it would offer a valuable new resource to the industry.

The philosophy of turnkey is simple

Whatever the job, from routine servicing to major rebuilds or restructuring, we undertake and manage the whole process. We supply the equipment, the expertise and personnel, the parts and logistics, and the specialists and supervisors where required. That leaves our customers free to get on with their core business.

Mechanical Running Test Services

Howden offers full-capability test facilities to accommodate the testing needs of your rotating equipment.

Our unique skills and recognized experience in rotating equipment technologies will give you peace of mind that Howden will test your product to the highest standards providing the most accurate performance data available.

Howden’s unrivalled reputation and unique product knowledge means you can rely on us to ensure your equipment is tested in accordance with the most stringent standards.

With world-class testing facilities across the globe, Howden now has the capability to test third party equipment. Whether you are launching a new product and require highly reliable performance data, pushing the performance of your products to meet new industry standards or verifying the performance of existing equipment, Howden has the expertise and the capability to carry out these services as per your requirements.

Installation and Commissioning

To ensure a high uptime of your equipment, it often is of utmost importance to limit the time needed for installation & commissioning of either spare parts or a complete installation.

Especially in such situations you want the assurance that equipment is correctly installed, so that you can resume full operations reliably within the shortest possible interval.